Gravity's Rainbow

Name: Gravity's Rainbow
Author: Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon · 1973

WWII paranoia, rocket trajectories, behavioral psychology, entropy, and the systems that govern human life. The Pulitzer committee refused to give it the prize (calling it "obscene, unreadable, overwritten"); it won the National Book Award instead. Pynchon invented the "systems novel" here in 1973. The encyclopedia as narrative form.

The case against

on the page count
“do almost everything Gravity’s Rainbow does, in less than a third of the page count”
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on the second page
“I’ve never made it past the 2nd page on that one”
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on the female characters
“There are only two female characters of any depth beyond a few lines”
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on page 108
“I was 108 pages in when I set it down last”
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